New Classroom

So I'd like to say that the world is our classroom, as I've often read. But the truth is that most of our "school" takes place in one spot in the house. 

Previously, that spot was the main floor office. It served us well for a year, but it had become very crowded, especially when the preschooler turned into a "schooler" and the baby became mobile and began dragging toys around and grabbing pencils. 

So now that spot has moved from the office to the basement. That means we have more room to spread out and a whole other room where the littler ones can play while the bigger ones do lessons.

Shelves have been moved in, and desks have been assembled (or re-assembled). Maps have been placed on the walls, and shelves and clocks have found a place, too. We still need a large table for the boys to work at, but we haven't found what we're looking for yet (think: big, solid farm table from reclaimed wood - at an affordable price). So that's still missing.

But here's what we do have...

Coming down the stairs - a large shelf and Elsa's new desk

the "world" IN our classroom

Display shelves for books

Elsa's easel and a peek into the (messy) rec room where Caroline can play

Looking in from the rec room

IKEA rocks (and yes, I know my picture is crooked; I'm just too tired to do anything about it right now)

Ha - I just noticed that you can see my reflection in the white board. Weird.

The teacher's desk

Caroline was investigating the new map. And this was taken just .04739 seconds

before the whole map fell off the wall flipping the clock around beside it. 

She was ok. The wall, on the other hand, needed some touch-up painting. Ugh. 

Now she keeps pointing at the map saying, "Don't touch!" 

Yes, that's right!!